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MONDAY JUNE -7 1920
PAGE FOUR DAILY. AKUfllUUmiEi -
Daily Ardinoreite
Axdmore Oklahoma.
John F. Eaalty Editor and Gene.-al
Manager.
Cenrge H. Wyatt Managing Editor.
Mr. Ernmltt T. RelJ City Editor.
Afternoon (Except Saturday) and
Sunday Morning.
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Entered at Ardmore Okla. PostofllOJ
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MONDAY JCNE " 19J0
It is the duty of a debtor to pay
a debt without waiting for a de-
mand. Encyclopedia liritannka.
THE IJIUTISH "OIL MONOPOLY"
tFrom Christian Science" Monitor)
There was something peculiarly
timely about the speech delivered at
the Pilgrims' dinner in New York
the other day by the new British
ambassador Sir Aucklund Geddes. Sir
Auckland has evidently come to Wash-
ington determined to do what lies in
his power to expose and offset that
Insidious propaganda which is be-
ing ceaselessly carried on in the ef-
fort to create a condition o strain
and difficulty between the United
Kingdom and the United States. In
i he United Kingdom of course as
all must know who have any inti-
mate knowledge of actual sentiment
at the other side of the Atlantic such
propadanda has no material on which
to operate and for many decades
past hits never had any. Whatever
work is to be done therefore must
be done in the United States and so
It was in the United States that the
enemies of both countries concentrated
their efforts during the war and are
still concentrating them.
Now a favorite means for stirring
up such strife is of course to pic-
ture the United Kingdom as actuated
by Just one motive namely the trade
domination of the world and to sug-
gest specific ways In which the lawful
trade of the United States is being
threatened and Indeed deliberately
undermined by the entirely unlawful
and utterly unscrupulous methods of
the United Kingdom As Sir Auckland
Geddes expressed It the picture is
that of "a grasping greedy Knglnnd
laying violent hands on anything she
can reach militarist in spirit creating
L-roadsiJe of facts really settled the
mailer. Seventy per cent of the
world's ill output was from thu soil
of the United Slated and all of that
was capable in the tlmo of emer-
gency of being brought under the con-
trol of the United States government.
Theti there was Mexico. Sixteen per
cent of Ihe world's output tame from
Mexico and three-fourths of Ihe. Mex-
ican supply was controlled by Ameri-
can capital. In addition to all thin
citizens of the United States had
tither secured production or had been
prospecting ' in at least ten other
countries and whilst he did not know
what the output amounted to in these
countries even leaving them out of
account some Si per cent of the
worlds oil supply was under the
control of the United States In some
form or another.
Sir Auckland then went on to con-
shier the position of the "alleged oil
monopilist!" AS hat are the facts? The
Kritish commonwealth's total produc-
tion is about 2 5 per cent of the
world's supply while the supply of
the l'ersiun oil is controlled by Brit
ish capital is about 2 per cent. Brit-
ish comimnies have also some produc-
tion in Burma but the output is
relatively small. In time of enter-
I gency British interests control & per
cent of the world's output. "Do these
figures" Sir Auckland asked "suggest
a monopoly for Britain?"
Nor was this nil. It ought not to
have been necessary for Sir Auck-
land Geddes to point out that Britain
does net own Batum and Baku but
he was evidently determined to leavi
nothing unrepudiated that was untrue
no matter how obvious the statement
in which it involved him. 'Finally
In reply to the charge that an "In-
satiable government" was preparing
to exploit to the uttermost the oil
resources of Mesopotamia and FaNs-
line Sir Auckland Geddes made the
specific statement that Great Britain
had forbidden oil surveys and acquisi-
tion of rights in Palestine or Meso-
potamia until new governments are
constituted there to deal with the
matter themselves.
Having thus disposed of the oil
monopoly Sir Auckland turned to
the charge of militarism. And again
taking a specific instance he pointed
out that when the armistice was
siprned Great Britain had four buttle
cruisers in process of building but
that the moment It was clear that
there would in all probability bo no
further fighting work on three of
them was stopped and later on these
three were broken up. Naval esti-
mates moreover had been reduced
by 75 per cent and Great Britain had
not at tho present time a single
capital ship building or completing.
"Our nir force and army" the Brit-
ish ambassador added "have been
dealt with even more drastically. The
era of conscription in England is over
and the at my reduced to its pre-war
size. Does that look like militarism."
Even the most perfervid Anglophohe
will find it difficult to produce evi
dence that Kngtana is leveriMiiy
building ships to dominate the seven
seas."
At the Pilgrims' dinner the British
Hiinplo frankness were strongly null-
militaristic liberal democratic seek- j
itig no quarrel Jealous of none hoping '
for world peace and determined to
make great sacrifices If necessary to
secure It. And he invited his audi-
ence to look closely and see If they
would mil find that whilst Kngland is
trying lo "pour oil on the troubled
Waters of Europe" there aro not cer-
tain people "who seize the oil as it I
Is poured and throw it on the flrn '
of nntl-Knglish feeling" in the United '
States. - !
Editorial
of the Day
ROBERT SAYRE ANSWERS
CALL OF ROLLING WAVE
TIIK MEXICAN PEOriAi
Senator Penrose n( Pennsylvania
Who is Interested in the republican
national convention in Chicago this
week after engaging a suite of ten
rooms in a Chicago 'hostelry decided
nut to attend and instead will have
his homo connected with the Coliseum
by telephones. The reason for this
decision was not slated but possibly-
the senati.r figuied It would bo cheap-
er to rent a string of leased wires
stretching half way across the con-
tinent than to pay for ten rooms in
a hotel at the present tinie.
An astronomer stationed in the
West Indies and hO has an eye on
Mar." says the Martian autumn has
set in and the first snow of the Rea-
son is . now falling on our nearest
neighboring planet. Tho professor
fails to give figures on the wheat
yield up there this' year but after
studying the matter we feel safe in
nvsuring the farmers that in view
jf the fact that this planet is at
present so fatf removed frcm Earth
v.e look for little competition along
this line Just now. Ve do find how-
ever that in 1924 Mars will be only
35000000 miles from us.
It sometimes happens that the line
of ilcinarkutiun between news matter
and advertising Is so fine that news-
paper editors need a magnifying glass
to determine which is which. AVhen
a big man gets sick now the
newspapers are not only informed
of the fact but a bulletin Is issutd
over the signature of half dozen
specialists. The next thing It seems'
will be to have these bulletins wit-
nessed beforo a notary public giving
tho notary's name and the date on
which his license expires. The whole
thing can be laid at the door of tlu
Motion picture producer. He gave
the die when he started Ihe fad of
giving a prelude to his play in which
Tire sel forth the names of the rirt
director camera man interior decor-
ater landscape artist head prop and
the chief Janitor. Then loo this
means of advertising is absolutely
"ethicnl."
a gr?at navy to dominate the oceans."
Sir Auckland of course had no diffi-
culty in showing how utterly ridicu-
lous such a picture was. With the
true instinct of the statesman he
took specific Instances. There was
the "wild duck" as he called it of
the British oil monopoly. No on who
knows anything about the world's oil
supply or even has an elementary
knowledge of geography outside of
his own country could be deceived
for a momont by tho story of a Brit-
ish oil monopoly. Nevertheless Sir
Auckland Geddes with splendid pati-
ence and quite remorseless decisive
ness tackled tho question. The first
Postal Employes lief Increase
Washington June C. President Wil-
son devote dhis entlro time Saturday
to signing bills passed in the closing
days of the present session of con-
i gross.
Measure approved by him Included
the annual naval sundry bil diplo-
matic and consular and District of Col-
umbia appropriation bills the national
trnn.-i '.rtation measure the hill per-
mitting government owned radio sta-
tions to handle private and press
'eorganization
amuassauor was no ;ouoi fik-ukuik ; lrR.imges and the array
largely to the converted but in mo 1 8Ct
immrasurably torpor audience to J 750 postal pay increase bill under
which he was also addressing him- . which postoffice employes will re-
self there are many who need to be j ei-fve $.13 000000 additional salary next
remind'-d of the tremendous changes : year .and more thereafter was signed
which have been brought iiIhjuL by
the war in Europe. They need to be
reminded how the nietuie of England
so sedulously presented to the Am-
erican people both before the war an 1
after It by these who desire to see
no triumph of the Anglo-Saxon ideals
Is more untrue today than ever it
was. And so Sir Auckland Geddes
put llv matter fairly and scjuarely.
The pcoplo of England ho said with
by President Wilson.
liels Life Sentence
Mount Clemens Mich. June 6.
Life Imprisonment at hard labor the
maximum penalty under the Michi-
gan law. wns th3 sentence imposed
today upon Lloyd Prevost convicted
Inst night of killing J. Stanley Brown
near here last December. Counsel
for Prevost announced nfte the ver-
dict thai a new trial will be asked.
is rich in the solid meaty
values of wheat and malt-
ed barley and has a sub-
stantial amount of-sugar:
This sug'ar is not" added in
making but is - developed
from these grains by pro-
cessing and long baking.
This decreases your sugar
requirements for the av-
erage cereal' needs sugar
.for greatest : palatability.
Grape cNUtS needs none.
Bear ; this in: mind when
you order your cereal and
asktfor GrapeNuts.
"There's a Reason"
Made by Postum Cereal Co. Inc. Battle CreekMich.
Although the Bio Grande and a sur-
veyor's line run across the desort di-
vide. Mexico from the United States
tho American people who do not live
near the border that is to say ubout
107000000 of them know very little
ubout their southern neighbors. To
the average "American the Mexican of
today is an ' insurgent or a bandit
or ut any rate a conspirator against
his own government. As a matter
of fact Mexicans of this typo form
It has been estimated about 1 per
cent of the wholej Nor are the char-
acter tho temperament the manners
and the modes of. life of the Mexicans
understood in this country. In repu-
tation they suffer from the defects
und iniquities of tho ruling class for-
merly the while or Spanish clement
well educated and exclusive and now
the generals even part Indian whose
origin Is more or less obscure. It
must bo admitted that it has been
the fashion in the United States to
give tho Mexican a bad name and
to deny him virtue courage man-
hood and humanity.
The Judgment pronounced in 1S4$
by George Frederick Buxton an ad-
venturous British army officer Is
often accepted as final in this day.
After several months spent in Mex-
ico in cities and on the trail Bux
ton one of the most hardy daring
and self-dependent of men wrote that
he could not "remember to have ob-
served one single commendable train It
tho character of the Mexican always
excepting from this sweeping clause
the women of tho country who for
kindness of heart and many sterling
dualities are an ornament to their
sex and to any nation." He as
poised the courage of the Mexicans
their honesty their humanity they
were a bad lot nnd past redemption
But Huxton had much to do with
thugs bravos and the scum of the
people in his wanderings. He npver
remained long enough in one place 0
study the Mexicans and he was never
a part of their life in town or on
hacienda. There is different testimony
from others. Mexicans are very hu
man .after all and they have quail
ties that make them kindly friends
and good neighbors.
An American contractor confided to
Charles Macomb Flandrau whose lit
tie book "Viva Mexico" is one of
tho most intimate studies of the Mex
icans we have: "I hate 'em all. But
after my work Is over for the day
I like to sit on a bench in the plaza
and look at 'em. I sit there a couple
of hours every evening liven when
the rascals ain't doing anything In
particular .you always sort of feel as
if there was something doing."
Flandrau found tho Mexicans of all
classes down to the humblest laborer
the politest p'YPle he had met either
at work or play. "With your permis
sum" says a peon bent double under
a sack of cotf as the treads in front
of a bricklayer mending a wall. A
rider passing thirty or forty horse.
men greets each one pleasantly and
"May God go witVi you:" he concludes.
Flandrau sagely says that while
Americans often cry out at the thiev
ish propensities of the Mexicans they
Invariably speak of some individual
whom they have trusted and not
found wanting in honesty and good
faith. On his own ranch tho Amerl
can writer was well served and his
confidence was not abused.
Tliilip Terry thinks that Americans
are to blame if they do not like the
Mexicans those of course who are not
professional insurrectos and road
agents. Courtesy and hospitality aro
the rule with rarely an exception
and "the most frigid Northerner gen
erally thaws beneath the genial beams
of Mexican good humor and volubil-
ity." Ho adds: "Never measure Mex-
ican institutions by Abcrican stand-
ards nor seek for motes in bright
eyes." A witness with a nexperlence
of thirty years in Mexico Alden Buell
Case an American missionary knew
the Mexicans only to esteem them for
their kindness of heart and amiability
and excuse their faults which were
racial or tile result of mis-government
oppression and a social system for
which their spiritual advisers were
often responsible. For many years
Case lived in SI Vaile Chihuahua the
1 headquarters of Francisco Villa toOay.
But tho missionary traveled wide Vis-
iting many citios. Including the capi-
tal. Hu speaks of "the excellent
bankers merchants doctors and law-
yers" whom he met and of the ed-
itors and "brilliant literary men"
who "surprise one ignorant of Mexico
by their unmistakable culture brealth
of information and sane Judgment."
For the people of El Vail e an rgla-
rian community he had a warm plac
in his heart. To blm I'. a Mexi-
can "Sweet Auburn." 1I lestitits
liiat jj.ili'eress is not me vly form: 'in
cases of sickness bereavement or mis-
fortune .-ympathy is generous and sin-
cere and shown not only in words but
by kind deeds." Orphans never lack
hnns. i.i.d "especially are the aitd
cred for w'.th kindness." Uaviit'.c
la tnnu t rie.io of the Mt-eM peo-
ple. "My 'years of exn 1 j 1 ;." he
sys "have Impressed mi mote wiJi
th.1.' (the Mexicans) com. irv. ar.l
faithfulness than with the oppospe
cl.sra::rif!lcs" He pntic.i that
' ihere will ccrteln'.y be x now Moxlc.i.
Tim: coyn'r will some day lake her.
Plac I'.irong 'lis stHbl. ie powerfu'
fx highly esteemed natims of tie
world coiilr:Vutlng her lull shuM te
the progress of clvillza jii." 'iMih.
tin help of the neighbor o? the Noit:i
he adds. New York Times
Norman June 7. With Robert
Sayre Ardmore post commander ul-
ready reporting at Philadelphia for
duty on some merchant marine vessel
the University of Oklahoma Ameri-
can Legion post No. D2 has dis-
banded for the summer vacation Paul
Campbell Iliggtnson Ark. post ad-
jutant announced this week. Present
officers will hold over until September
when legion men return to the stato
university for tho 1920 21 university
year.
The lure of the sea the clanking
of chains and the muffled sound of
he fo sirens proved too much for
Commander Sayre and he could not
vrlt until he hail been granted his
egrM but left Norman as soon as
he had completed his final examina
tions and class work lie expects to
return to the university this fall" and
enter the college of engineering.
During the war Pest 52's command
er was naval ensign on a sub-chaser.
He will lie second mate and navlga.
tlon officer on a United States ship
ping board vessel this summer sailing
from Philadelphia for Buenos Aires
ru-nnll. Mnntevido Uruguay and later
Usbon. Portugal.
If Commander Sayre does not return
this fall A. C. Wright Lawton vice-
post commander will re-organizo the
university post In September. The
university post has Just completed ;i
membership lrive before final exami
nations stnrted. One hundred nnd
twenty-six new members were enroll-
ed. Murray Wamble sophomore en
gineering student from Drumrlght
won the kodak onereu oy tne post
when he brought in 50 former service
men. Wamble was a second lieuten-
ant of engineers during the war rerv-
Ir.g with the 111th Kngineers 3Gth
division.
Membership In tho university this
post has varied from 275 lo 300 new
members entering scnool at the be
ginning of the second semester and
old members leaving.
Pest officers were named at the
Hst meeting of the sooner rst for
the state legion convention at Tulsa
the last cf August. At this mceling
H.: II. Hapan state commander spoke
after which a smoker and mixer was
held.
Activities of the university post
this year have Included a fight for
a Sooner Memorial for Oklahoma
service men. to be erected at the state
university; aiding the lied Cross drive
last fall when in one day 400 mem
bers were secured by legioners; three
social entertainments; two dances;
a boxing exniDition anu ine biuiuk
membership drive.
A movement will be started next
fall to aid the university In secuinife
a complete uthletlc plant In oraVr
that every student enrolled in me
state university may have an oppor
tunity lo take prnMT exercise evei y
day of tho school year. Local posi
officials feel that It is as m-cessary
that civilians ho healthful and ox
nearly physically fit as possible as It
i for service men to lx In proper
physical condition. 1
Many university post members nr
planning on taking nn actlvo 1urt
in the legion work in their home com-
munities this summer they informed
Commander Sayre and Adjutant Camp-
bell before leaving this week.
COMBINED RESOURCES AND
MAU1MTIKS UKSEKVE HANKS
Washington June 7. Combined re
sources and liabilities of federal re
servo banks at the closo of business
Friday were reported tonight by tho
federal reserve board as follows:
Resources
Total gold held by banks $707277
000.
Total gold reserves JJ960R530OO.
Total reserves J2.O9S.94O.U00.
Total bills on hand $2874946000.
Total earning assets 327!f2l000.
Total resources $61951)09000
Liabilities.
Totnl gross deposits $2596791000
Total liabilities $6195509000.
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HOUSE WILL NOT .Ulr.M
I11U CHICAGO DEUB'
Washington June 7.-'iiator
Knox formally announced that he
would not attend the republican
national convention at Chicago
to which he was elected a deli-
galo at large because of "private
business." His proxy he said
would be held by Judgo A. H.
Reed of Philadelphia.
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they did. They smoke easy draw
easy are easy on the user and his
purse.
Why folks these cigarettes are
bred from the world's oest toDacco.
The choicest leaves from the
Orient- are blended in a new way
with Burley and other home-grown u
tobaccos and that good old tobacco)
taste is brought out to the rulL j
Satiny imported paper crimped
not pasted makes an easier-draw-;
ing slower-burning cigarette.
Smart "brown-and-silver" pack-
age three-fold to keep Spurs fresh
for you. A cigarerfe of this quality
cannot beproduced for less than 20c
Women In Chicago Convention
Chicago Juno t. Women eat in the
deliberation of the republican national
committee today taking part for th
first time in making convention de-
cisions. Mm. S. B. Bcgga of Kansas
Vennona Swan of Missouri and Mr.
J. S. Beasley of Tennessee held prox-
ies of Nie national committeemen
frrm their homo' states and ast In
this morning's session.
Apparently taking a hearty Interest
In their new-found privilege the wom
en sa( placidly In tho clouds of tobac
co Btnuke closely following the argu
Inivnta and voting In tho decisions.
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